This paper is a review that examines the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and community development. Entrepreneurial conceived as tendency or openness of firm an towards innovativeness, risk -taking, pro-activeness autonomy. On other hand, Community development relates to revitalization, improvement positive changes brought either through external support members’ con...

Entrepreneurship is a primary catalyst for economic growth and regional development. Recognizing its importance, state and local policymakers are now devoting considerable resources to fostering entrepreneurship. After a brief discussion of the data and theories of entrepreneurship, this paper presents a framework for thinking about government’s role in the entrepreneurial process. We then exam...

The research examines entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in Malay family firms by taking personality traits as the antecedent. This construct is used to explain the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and its consequence towards firm performance. The impact of personality traits towards firm performance observed in Malay family firms is unique to the paper. In Malay firms, the relations...

We examine how the social structure of existing organizations influences the entrepreneurial process and suggest that resources accrue to entrepreneurs based on the structural position of their prior employers. We argue that information advantages allow individuals from entrepreneurially prominent prior firms to identify new opportunities. Entrepreneurial prominence also provides reputation ben...

Social media platforms are an indispensable part of entrepreneurship practices. They offer entrepreneurs a platform for business growth and brand development. However, little is known about the effect of social media use on identifying entrepreneurial opportunities. Utilizing social cognition theory, this research focuses on how certain factors—prior knowledge, alertness, and social media—may i...

Entrepreneurship is a major factor in the national economy; thus, it is important to understand the motivational characteristics spurring people to become entrepreneurs and why some are more successful than others. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of the relationship between achievement motivation and variables associated with entrepreneurial behavior. We found that achievement motiv...

In the context of desperate poverty, characterized by households at subsistence level that experience economic loss and social fracture, explanations for why individuals undertake entry into entrepreneurship are limited. We find that individuals rely on their social relationships to enable entrepreneurial activities that have the potential to create a reasonable income gain. In a sample of 1,04...

We define cultural entrepreneurship as the process of storytelling that mediates between extant stocks of entrepreneurial resources and subsequent capital acquisition and wealth creation. We propose a framework that focuses on how entrepreneurial stories facilitate the crafting of a new venture identity that serves as a touchstone upon which legitimacy may be conferred by investors, competitors...

This project investigated how potential entrepreneurs evaluate opportunities in the pre-startup phase of a new venture creation process. Based on Busenitz and Lau’s (1997) cross-cultural cognitive model of new venture creation, I examined the relationship between risk perception and a potential entrepreneur’s intention to start a venture, as well as the moderating effect of a potential entrepre...

Although social entrepreneurial organizations have begun to receive more scholarly attention, we still know relatively little about how they are able to create both social and economic value. This paper presents a comparative case analysis of three social entrepreneurial organizations, based in Bangladesh, Egypt and Spain, whose success has been widely recognized. Analysis of these organization...